Deliverance, redemption and establishment of Israel as God's people

In the Book of Exodus we have, as the general and characteristic
subject, the deliverance and redemption of the people of God, and
their establishment as a people before Him, whether under the law, or
under the government of God in longsuffering -- of a God who, having
so brought them to Himself, provided for His unfaithful people; not
indeed entrance into His own presence, but a way of approaching Him,
at least at a distance, although they had failed. But the veil was
unrent: God did not come out to them, nor could they go in to God. And
this is of all possible importance, and characteristic of the
difference of Christianity. God did come amongst sinful men in love in
Christ, and man is gone in to God, in righteousness, and withal the
veil is rent from top to bottom. The law required from man what man
ought to be as a child of Adam; life was put as the consequence of
keeping it, and there was a curse for him if it was not kept. God's
relationship with the people had at first been in grace; but this did
not continue, and the people never entered thereinto with
intelligence, nor understood this grace like persons who stood in need
of it as sinners. Let us examine the course of these divine
instructions.